SOEN devotes their third album "Lykaia" to an archaic ritual on the Lykaion, where young men are said to have eaten meat, supposedly human. The Swedes around ex-OPETH and AMON AMARTH drummer Martin Lopez are not so much into the depths. Which does not mean that the lyrics are flat, but just that this is not a concept album. Rather, they use the symbolism behind it and lament the dog-eat-dog mentality of our society.​

The Swedish prog masters' sophomore outing “Tellurian” voices to us words of comfort in intricate musical colors brimming with technical prowess and strangely beautiful melodies of sorrowful serenity few, if any, other bands are able to give a sonic form to.

Sonically labyrinthine “Tellurian” is best enjoyed with your headphones on, in a darkened room, with your eyes closed. It is definitely not just another slab of progressive metal you one minute hear and forget the next. Abstract and free of form, oddly mesmerizing and brutally beautiful, “Tellurian” leads the immersing listener through serpentine sound scapes, rewarding the ones who take the journey with a strangely serene mindset.